See also: Jiménez

Cisneros, Francisco Jiménez of , cardinal Franciscain (1436 - 1517) and Spanish politician. He had been the initiator of the confrontation of the translations Greek (the Seventy) and Latin (the Vulgate of Saint Jerome) of the Bible with the Hebrew text , this with the assistance of the Conversos. Its death chokes any biblical study or any critical approach in Spain.

Biography

Franciscain born in Castille, become cardinal, confessor of the queen Isabelle de Castille (1492), archbishop of Tolède (1495), administrator of Castille, he becomes the regent of Spain to died of the queen (1504), large Inquisiteur of Castille (1507-1516), conqueror of Oran (1509). While being pitiless in the repression of the Heresies, it bases and finances on its personal sums of money the university of Alcalá de Henares in 1509 in which the languages are paradoxically taught prohibited by the Enquiry, of which Hebrew and the araméen. This university quickly becomes one of best of Europe being used as model at the universities of the whole world. It inspires with François Ier, king de France, the idea to found the Collège de France. In 1522, it makes appear Complutensis or polyglot Bible of Alcalá, complete edition of the Hebrew Bible, surrounded by his Greek and Latin translation such as wanted Cisneros on the model of the Hexaples of Origène.

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